Because I don’t even consider them guilty; it’s the organization that’s guilty, it’s the high officials who are guilty.”

“they’re probably law books, and it’s in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The commentators tell us: the correct understanding of a matter and misunderstanding the matter are not mutually exclusive.

I’m always involved in my work, and so I have my wits about me; it would be a positive pleasure to confront a situation like this at my office.

the old legal maxim: a suspect is better off moving than at rest, for one at rest may be on the scales without knowing it, being weighed with all his sins.”

If he stayed home and led his normal life he was infinitely superior to any of these people, and could kick any one of them out of his path.

You’re under arrest all right, but not the way a thief would be. If you’re arrested like a thief, that’s bad, but this arrest—. It seems like something scholarly, I’m sorry if that sounds stupid, but it seems like something scholarly that I don’t understand, but that I don’t need to understand either.”

One needn’t be particularly faint of heart to be easily persuaded of the impossibility of ever finishing the petition. Not because of laziness or deceit, the only things that kept the lawyer from finishing, but because without knowing the nature of the charge and all its possible ramifications, his entire life, down to the smallest actions and even

“I find it odd,” said Fräulein Bürstner, “to be forced to forbid you to do something your own conscience should forbid, namely, to enter my room when I’m away.”